Broncos Saddle Gu With 2 Losses
Mike Frank pitched a complete-game four-hitter in the opener and went 4 for 6 on the day to guide Santa Clara to a 4-1, 14-5 sweep of Gonzaga in West Coast Conference baseball Saturday at Santa Clara, Calif.
Santa Clara (23-16, 12-3) has won seven straight to pull within 1-1/2 games of first-place Pepperdine. Gonzaga is 15-23-1, 3-12.
Frank struck out 11 and launched Santa Clara’s two-run first with an RBI single. Frank scored on Paul Chiaffredo’s double.
Brian Canny’s RBI double in the second ended the Zags’ scoring. Chiaffredo hit a two-run homer, his eighth, in the third off GU starter Matt Kearney.
The Broncos powered to a 5-0 lead in the second game. Frank’s two-run triple to right-center led a three-run first. Chiaffredo added an RBI double in the fourth.
Kevin Okimoto went 3 for 4 with two RBIs, and Todd Hughes hit his first collegiate homer. Santa Clara’s Vince Boyanich scattered four hits and struck out eight in seven innings.
Santa Clara 4-14, Gonzaga 1-5
Gonzaga 010 000 0 - 1 4 1
S.Clara 202 000 x - 4 9 0
Kearney and Canny; Frank and Chiaffredo. W-Frank (8-0). L-Kearney (1-5). HITS: Gonzaga-Hare, Uberuaga, Canny. Santa Clara- Hughes, Frank 2, Chiaffredo 2, Fairbairn 2, Wheeler 2. 2B-Uberuaga, Chiaffredo. HR-Chiaffredo.
Gonzaga 000 010 130 - 5 7 2
S.Clara 300 233 30x - 14 12 1
Hess, Stoppa (5), Neace (6), Sazama (7) and Asan, Doolittle (7); Boyanich, Henley (8), Bulich (8), Rizzi (9) and Chiaffredo, Laubach (7). W-Boyanich (3-2). L-Hess (1-2). HITS: Gonzaga-Hare 3, Uberuaga, Felice, Hunt 2. Santa Clara-Hughes, Mott 2, Frank 2, Okimoto 3, Giannini, Chiaffredo, Cota, Rice. 2B-Uberuaga, Chiaffredo, Giannini, Okimoto. HR-Hughes.
Whitworth at Pacific (2), ppd.
The Northwest Conference of Independent Colleges doubleheader has been moved to 4 this afternoon in The Dalles, Ore. Sunday’s originally scheduled single game was moved to noon Monday at Pacific’s field in Forest Grove, Ore.
North Idaho 12, Ricks 2
NIC 000 441 03 - 12 22 1
Ricks 002 000 00 - 2 5 0
Bosch and Pendall; Holland, Windmare (5), Cannon (8) and Boyle. W-Bosch (2-0). L-Holland.
HITS: North Idaho College-Penner, Bevacqua 3, Wilson, Bay 4, Novac, Pendall 2, Lynch 3, Larson 4, Nelson 3. Ricks-Smith, Boyle 2, Morris 2. 2B-Bevacqua 2, Bay, Pendall, Lynch, Larson 2, Nelson, Morris 2. 3B-Lynch. HR- Pendall (1), Larson (1).
Softball
Crossover Tourney in Yakima
Tracy Moore threw four shutout innings, and went 3 for 4 with three runs and two RBIs as Community Colleges of Spokane blasted host Yakima Valley 23-0 in the second of three games at the tourney.
Peggy Palmer of CCS added a 2-for-2 effort, with three RBIs and three runs.
In its first game, CCS lost to Mount Hood Community College 10-8 on Shannon Lindsey’s two-run triple in the sixth. Shannon Zahrowski’s two-run triple in the fifth for the Sasquatch had tied the game. Stephanie Shelton of CCS went 3 for 5 with four RBIs.
The third game was played late.
MHCC 202 042 0 - 10 10 2
CCS 051 020 0 - 8 14 5
Nations and Richardson; Vanwert and McGowan. W-Nations. L-Vanwert (6-3).
HITS: Mt. Hood Community College-Lindsey 2, Nations, Ogawa, Thompson, Nelson, Richardson 2, Lawless 2. Community Colleges of Spokane-Shelton 3, Moore 3, Zahrowski 3, Kinder, Cossotte, Vanwert 2, Ballou. 2B-Shelton. 3B-Lindsey, Shelton, Zahrowski.
CCS (11)32 70 - 23 15 0
YVCC 000 00 - 0 2 7
Moore, Eneroth (5) and Curry; Guerre, Higbee (1) and Reese. W-Moore (5-1). L-Guerre.
HITS: CCSShelton 2, Wells 2, Moore 3, Zahrowski, Kinder, Armitage, Hedum 2, Palmer 2, Ballou. Yakima Valley Community College-Higbee, Burbank. 2B-Moore, Wells, Armitage, Ballou.
Crew
California Championships
Gonzaga’s men and women both placed second to California in varsity eight races near Sacramento.
GU’s varsity women finished the 2,000-meter course in 7 minutes, 4.7 seconds. Cal won in 7:00.7.
Cal won the men’s varsity race in 5:55.34. The Zags finished in 6:10.6.
GU will compete today in the West Coast Conference championships.
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